IPv6 - how do I get ready?

David Fletcher dave at thefletchers.net
Mon Jan 24 14:07:59 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:12 +0000, Harry Strongburg wrote:

> The way that it will (hopefully) work would be: your router's firmware 
> will be automatically updated to handle IPv6 (if possible), and that 
> your computer will automatically get an IPv6 address through Router 
> Advertisement. You shouldn't need to do much to set it up, once your ISP 
> tells you that it's ready.

This is why, when I needed a new router a few months back, I chose the
WRT160NL. There's no mention that I can see on the Linksys firmware
download section of IPV6 but dd-wrt looks like it provides support.

Also found the warning that every IPv6 machine will need to be
firewalled.

D






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